First 'God Friended Me' Trailer from HUMANITAS Trustee Greg Berlanti Promises an Angel from On High

Greg Berlanti's (The CW's Arrowverse) newly announced show, God Friended Me, one of CBS's upcoming fall series, asks the question: “What would you do if you got a friend request from God?”

Granted, if you exist on the internet in any capacity, you probably wouldn’t accept such a request, considering it was likely a parody account spamming you with a bot-powered follow. But if you just humor God Friended Me and its newly released trailer, it gets much weirder and more complicated than that.

Starring Brandon Micheal Hall and Joe Morton, the show follows a man’s joint journey into conspiracy theory and Christianity after someone claiming to be God messages him on social media. There’s hacking, father-son conflict (like Luke and Vader, as the show claims), and some deity-influenced stalking.

The oddly sappy religious/social media drama seems to be using the missing persons format of narrative, but with a higher power in place of those shows’ slick technological fix-its. There’re also a whole lot of people getting hit by cars.

Though it seems hard to believe that the show’s omniscient social media account could be anything other than a higher power, the mystery of whether or not it is a prank will apparently drive a show that’s trailer is as strange as they come.